CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION 3 



APPROVAL BY COMMISSIONER P. P. CLAXTON 5 



SOUTH-COAST DISTRICT , 9 



South-coast water-birds, 10; larger land-birds, 13; sparrows and small 

 birds, 15. 



WOODED INTERIOR DISTRICT 16 



Shore-birds and game-birds, 17; falcons, eagles and owls, 18; woodland 

 species, 20; finches and small songsters, 22. 



ARCTIC COASTAL DISTRICT 26 



Asiatic visitors, 27; braving an arctic winter, 28; bird-life of the Sea 

 Islands, 32 ; bird-year at St. Michaels, 34 ; spring and summer on the 

 tundras, 37; notes by the editor, 43. 



ALEUTIAN DISTRICT 45 



Land-birds of the Aleutian chain, 47. 



THE TUFTED PUFFIN 49 



THE CRESTED AUKLET 53 



THE EMPEROR GOOSE 57 



THE HUDSONIAN CURLEW 62 



THE WILLOW PTARMIGAN 64 



THE ALASKAN LONGSPUR . 68 



COLORED PLATES 



CROSSBILLS Frontispiece 



ALASKAN LONGSPUR 17 



WILLOW PTARMIGAN 31 



HUDSONIAN CURLEW 41 



TUFTED PUFFIN 49 



CRESTED AUKLET 55 



EMPEROR GOOSE 59 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



BREEDING COLONY OF CALIFORNIA MURRES 8 



MAP OF FAUNAL DISTRICTS IN ALASKA 9 



PALLAS' s MURRES ON BOGOSLOF ISLAND > 32 



PACIFIC KITTIWAKES ON WALRUS ISLAND 38 



CORMORANTS ON WALRUS ISLAND 46 



AUKLETS ON PRIBILOF ISLANDS . 54 



